In Praise of Interdisciplinary Research through Scientometrics

Guillaume Cabanac (1, 2)

1 IRIT-SIG - Systèmes d’Informations Généralisées
2 UT3 - Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier

The BIR workshop series foster the revitalisation of dormant links between two fields in information science: information retrieval and bibliometrics/scientometrics. Hopefully, tightening up these links will cross-fertilise both fields. I believe compelling research questions lie at the crossroads of scientometrics and other fields: not only information retrieval but also, for instance, psychology and sociology. This overview paper traces my endeavours to explore these field boundaries. I wish to communicate my enthusiasm about interdisciplinary research mediated by scientometrics and stress the opportunities offered to researchers in information science.

Mots clés: Scientometrics; Information Retrieval; Digital Libraries; Psychology of Science; Sociology of Science

Domaines: Théorie de l'information [cs.IT]; Recherche d'information [cs.IR]

Guillaume Cabanac. In Praise of Interdisciplinary Research through Scientometrics. 2nd Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR 2015), co-located with the 37th European Conference on Information Retrieval ECIR 2015, Mar 2015, Vienna, Austria. pp. 5-13. ⟨hal-01379486⟩